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Finding American Democracy through Humanism and Radical Liberalism

August 17, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

A shorter version of what’s written below was published on Friday, August 14 in The New York Times, as a comment to This is Where I Stand, the opinion column from David Brooks: Thanks to President Barack Obama and two recent columns in The New York Times, I’m wondering if we aren’t finding (at last) a framework for how we …

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Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: Brooks (David), Cohen (Roger), Harris (Kamala), Obama (Barack)

The Pandemic from an Academic Perspective

June 26, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

In these difficult times, it’s easy to fall into a trap, thinking about what’s happening as if it’s happening just in our own community or workplace. But isn’t there value in looking at the broader picture? Of course we’re reading the local newspapers, and some of us even try to catch up with what’s happening …

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Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: Brooks (David), COVID-19, De Gruyter, Eisenberg (Merle), Global Health, Milne (Ida), Newman (Viv), Racism (Global), Racism (United States), Social Justice, Søvsø (Tue Emil Öhler), Zimmer (Thomas)

Kenya: The People, The Places, The Culture (2)

November 9, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

My plans for preparing a series of posts with my “closing” (you might say) comments as I prepare to leave Kenya were interrupted. Professional priorities took over, and we all know what that means in the scheme of things. “The best-laid plans,” etc…. So apologies to regular readers of these posts. Will hope to stay …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Africa - Relations with the United States, Brooks (David), Creativity, Professional Opportunity, United States - Relations with Africa, United States - Security

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